The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership

Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development

Recommended by Yaro Starak, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #21 in Lean Management, Ranked #39 in Lean Startup

About the Book: The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Leadership. In The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis, a former Executive Vice President at Toyota, help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts-from simply performing their singular function to delivering value across all functions. Case studies from Toyota clearly illustrate the methods that create powerful, effective Lean leadership. Contents... more

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Yaro Starak One of the books I got a lot out of and I haven’t mentioned yet is called “The Toyota Way” which is a book that essentially looks at the Toyota car manufacturing process and why it was so revolutionary, talking about some concepts like kaizen and theory of constraints that came out of that process that Toyota developed and the book about it will give you such an insight into manufacturing, but also just general productivity, like kaizen became a concept that was almost as important as the 80-20 rule to me with my own business but with my own life as well. By the way, kaizen means, it’s like a... (Source)


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